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Category: Appeals | Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court in Florida v. Jardines held that the police use of a drug-sniffing dog to investigate a home and its immediate surroundings is a “search” under the Fourth Amendment, requiring a search warrant.
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Category: Federal Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
U.S. Sentencing Guidelines § 2G2.2(b)(4) authorizes a four-level enhancement in child pornography cases when the images possessed or distributed portray sadistic conduct or depictions of violence, which means additional years on top of what is already a very significant term…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
A little over a decade ago, the New York Times called the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals—which encompasses North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland—“the most aggressively conservative federal appeals courts in the nation.”
Time has its…
Category: Appeals | Federal Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
There are criminal cases in which the legal system fails. That is precisely what happened to Paysun Long, who, after 14 years, has been ordered released from prison after a federal court of appeals reversed his murder conviction.
Mr.…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Hate Crime | Terrorism Criminology
Given the tragic terrorist attacks on Paris, we must remain vigilant against the knee-jerk reaction to associate the law abiding, peaceful Muslims living in our communities with the criminals who are terrorizing civilians and governments throughout the world. Doing otherwise,…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Healthcare Fraud
The constitutionally guaranteed rights of a criminal defendant sometimes conflict with the interpretation of a criminal statute. When these situations arise, a case generally works its way to the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve the issue. That’s what has happened…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Healthcare Fraud | White Collar Crime
Medicaid is a jointly funded state and federal health care program. The program was established in Texas in 1987. It is administered by the State of Texas, namely the Health and Human Services Commission (HHS).
As of July…
Category: Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law | Guns
According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), federal weapons convictions declined 5.8 percent in Fiscal Year 2015 from the previous fiscal year. In 2014, the U.S. Justice Department secured 6,373 weapons convictions, but the number of convictions declined in…
Category: Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law | Immigration Crimes
Calls for “prison reform” are now coming from every political corridor. The reason is obvious: American taxpayers cannot continue to bear the exorbitant costs of the nation’s prison system. Last year CBS News reported that U.S. taxpayers are paying about…
Category: Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law
He was a flamboyant criminal defense attorney, well- known in the state criminal courts in Harris County for his courtroom theatrics and his contentious, often contemptuous, demeanor before the trial judges presiding over the cases he was defending.
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